To:INESSA ARMAND

Written:Written on April 1, 1914Published:Published for the first time in the Fourth (Russian) Edition of theCollected Works.

      Sent from Cracow to Paris.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1976],

      Moscow,Volume 35,

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DearFriend,

Isend you the draft Ukrainian appeal forShakhtyorsky
Listok,[1]and particularly ask you to be tactful in getting it
adopted (not on my behalf, of course, and better not in your name either)throughLola[2]and two or three Ukrainians (of course,againstYurkevich and,if possible, without the knowledge of this
disgusting, rotten nationalist philistine, who under the flag of Marxism is
preaching thedivisionof the workers by nationalities, aspecialnational organisation of the Ukrainian workers).

Youwill understand why it is inconvenient formeto send such
a draft in my own name. Lola wrote to me that he agrees with meagainstYurkevich, but Lola is naïve. The matter, however, must
not drag on. It is terribly important that a voice should be heard fromamongst the Ukrainian Social-Democratsfor unityagainstdividing up the workers by nations. And nowShakhtyorsky Listok(received by me only today, Wednesday, April 1, as a supplement to the
SundayPut Pravdy) shouldimmediatelybe made use of for
this purpose.

Rewritemy draft (I agree toallchanges, of course, if only
there remains the direct protest against the division by nations); let Lolaaloneor with someone else, etc.,accept and translate it into
Ukrainian, and then send itthrough metoPut Pravdyin his name or (better) on behalf of a group (though it be of two or three
people) of Ukrainian Marxists (still better, Ukrainian workers).

Thisshould be done tactfully, quickly, against Yurkevich andwithout his knowledge, because this twister will make trouble.

(Ihave received your story of Stepanyuk’s report and the speech by
Yurkevich; frankly speaking, I was angry with you—you didn’t understand
what theessenceof Yurkevich’s position was. And I again—I’m
sorry—called you the Holy Virgin. Please don’t be angry, it was because
I’m fond of you, because we’re friends, but I can’t help being angry when I
see “something that recalls the Holy Virgin”.)

Replyas quickly as possible and say whether you can carry out this
assignment properly, and how soon.

OnMonday I sent you the collection and a note attached to Nadya’s
letter. Have you received them?

Allthe best.

Ifmy draft could be retold by a Ukrainian voice, and with a couple of
vivid Ukrainian examples, that would be best of all!! I will bring pressure
to bear onPut Pravdy.

[1]ShakhtyorskyListok(Miners’ Leaflet)—appeared on March 16,
1914 as a supplement to No. 38 ofPut Pravdy. It was published on
the initiative of the miners themselves and on funds which they
collected. The secondShakhtyorsky Listokcame out in No. 77 ofPut Pravdy, May 4, 1914.

TheAppeal to the Ukrainian Workerswas printed in Ukrainian
in No. 28 ofTrudovaya Pravdaon June 29, 1914 over the signature
of Ocksen Lola. The MS. of Lenin’s draft appeal has not been preserved. The
contents of the document published inTrudovaya Pravdajustify the
assumption that it was Lenin’s work.

The“Editorial Comment on Ocksen Lola’s ‘Appeal to the Ukrainian
Workers’” was written by Lenin (see present edition, Vol. 20,
p. 494).

[2]Lola,0. N.(Stepanyuk) (1884–1919)—Ukrainian
worker and Bolshevik. Persecuted for his revolutionary activities, he
emigrated after the 1905–07 revolution to Galicia, then to Paris.